FATHERS AND CHILDREN
* The people imagine that, when it thunders,
prophet Ilya's riding across the sky in his
chariot What then? Are we to agree with
them ? Besides, the people's Russian ; but am
I not Russian too ?'
' No, you are not Russian, after all you have
just been saying! I can't acknowledge you as
Russian.*
1 My grandfather ploughed the land,1 answered
Bazarov with haughty pride. ' Ask any one of
your peasants which of us—you or me—he'd
more readily acknowledge .as a fellow-country-
man. You don't even know how to talk to
them.'
(While you talk to him and despise him at
the same time'
* Well, suppose he deserves contempt You
find fault with my attitude, but how do you
know that I have got it by chance, that
it's not a product of that very national
spirit, in the name of which you wage war
on it?*
' What an idea! Much use in nihilists !'
* Whether they 're of use or not, is not for us
to decide. Why, even you suppose you 're not
a useless person/
"Gentlemen, gentlemen, 00 personalities
please 1' cried Nikolai Petrovitch, getting up*
Petrovitch smiled, and laying his hand
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